Sample-card book.



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` UNITED STATES Patented April 12, 1904.

EDWARD W. BEDMEIER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SAMPLE-CARD BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 757,389, dated April 12,1904.l Application filed September 11,1903. Serial No. 172,710. (No model.)

To all whom, it mali/concern.:

Beit known that I, EDWARDW. BREDEMEIER, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sample-Card Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act specification.

My invention relates more particularly to a leaf of the book for holding one or more sample-cards in appropriate position for exhibition; and the invention has for its primary object to provide a sample-card book, or leaf therefor, which shall be at once efficient, economic of construction, and neat lin appearance.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which the said object and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described, with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more parl ticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a sample-card book, showing the book open, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section of one of the leaves on a still larger scale, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section on the line 4 4, Fig. 1.

It is of course understood that sample-cards vary in size and proportion according to the character of the goods displayed thereon.

In illustrating my invention I have shown on the left in Fig. l the long cards 1, which extend entirely across the leaf of the book and which are usually employed for buttons and other like goods, while on the right I have shown the leaf provided with two dierent forms or sizes-short transverse cards 2 and a single longitudinal card 3; but it will nevertheless be understood that these proportions and sizes may be varied at will without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The leaf of the book to which the samplecards l 2 3 are secured is made up of a backing-card 4, which is bound on all four edges and on both sides or faces by border-strips V5 6 7 8, and these four border-strips are secured to the backing-card and to each other in any suitable way, but preferably by means of wire staples or stitching 9 10 11 12, the inner edges of the border-strips 5 6 being spaced from the backing-card 4 and left free to overlap the edges of the sample-cards 1 2 3 and constitute a means of protecting these edges from being turned up and also holding the card in place on the leaf.

The cards 1 2 3 are each provided in each side or end or in those edges adjacent to the border-strips 5 6 with one or more notches 13, the number in each end being dependent upon the length of the card from right to left, and opposite each of these notches, through the border-strips 5 6, passes a transverse lug 15, which may be constituted by stitching the strip 5 or 6 entirely through from side to side, the stitching passing also through the backing-card 4, and this stitch may be produced in any suitable way, as by means of a wire stitch or staple, preferably a wire stitch or staple, which at once serves as a means of securing the strips 5 and 6 to the backing-card 4, around the edges of which the strips are bent each in U form, and of holding the sample-cards 1 2 3 against longitudinal movelment or shifting under the strips 5 6, it being understood that but for these transverse lugs 15 the cards would jostle together and become overlapped.

The leaf on the right is provided with an intermediate overlapping strip 16, which is employed when the sample-cards are of less length than the width of the leaf, such as shown on the right in Fig. 1. This strip 16 is also secured tothe backing-card 4 by means of staples or stitches 17, which serve as a means of securing strip 16 to backing-card 4 and of holding both the-top and bottom sample-cards 2 3 against lateral movement, like the transverse lugs 15.

If the leaves thus constructed are to be bound in book form, as shown in Fig. 2, the inner border-strips 8 are made of suiiicient length laterally to extend to or pass around suitable binding blocks or strips 18, which may be bound together by suitable lacing 19 in the ordinary Way.

Having thus described my invention, what IOO I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A leaf for a sample-card book, comprising a backing, border-strips having ilanges at the edges of said backing and spaced therefrom, sample-cards provided with notches in their edges inserted under said flanges and lugs engaging in said notches and securing said flanges to said backing.

2. A leaf for a sample-card book, comprising a backing, border-strips having anges overlapping said backing and spaced therefrom, sample-cards having notches in their edges inserted under said iianges, and stitching passing through said notches and securing said flanges to said backing.

3. A leaf for a sample-card book, comprising a backing, U-shaped border-strips embracing the edges of said backing, stitching passing through Said backing and border-strips at n intervals, and sample-cards inserted under said strips and having notches embracing said stitching.

4. A leaf for a sample-card book, comprising a backing, binding-strips secured along the edges of said backing and having their inner edges free, an additional strip secured on a face of said backing and having free edges, lugs passing through said bndingand additional strips at intervals, and sample-cards having their edges inserted under said strips and provided with notches engaging said lugs.

E. WV. BREDEMEIER.

Witnesses:

F. A. HOPKINS, M. B. ALLs'rADr. 

